News & Events

Assistant Professor Kent H. Barnett presented his article “Chevron in the Circuit Courts” (with C. Walker) at the Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable at Michigan State University during June.

UGA experts say the Brexit vote speaks to a “broken” European Union and will likely lead to uncertainty and more exits. Associate Professor Harlan G. Cohen is among the UGA experts sharing his perspective. He said, “After the Brexit vote, the one thing that’s predictable is that we’re facing a long period of uncertainty. Yesterday, everyone knew what the rules were. While the rules don’t change today, no one knows what the rules will be in in three months or two years. The terms of trade in goods and services between the U.K. and the rest of the EU, the rights of U.K. citizens to work, to health care, and to travel in other EU countries, intelligence sharing between the U.K. and the other EU governments, and the regulation of any number of industries in the U.K. are now open to debate at home and subject to negotiations abroad. Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union lays out a process for withdrawal but subjects everything to negotiation between the U.K. and the other 27 member states. No one can know today where exactly those negotiations will lead."

Associate Professor Sonja R. West was featured in WABE regarding her thoughts on a Florida law that prevents doctors from discussing or recording information about their patients' gun ownership. The article titled "Fla. 'Docs Versus Glocks' Could Spur Ga. Lawmakers" was written by Lisa Hagen and appeared 6/22/16.

Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein served as an outside expert to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as one of two facilitators of a two-day workshop on the design and operation of value added taxes and alternative consumption taxes for representatives of the Ministry of National Economy and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana, Kazakhstan, during June.